Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love. Ephesians 5:1-2.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Would you like to live in the most excellent way? The way that I walk and the way that you walk with Me?
Praise the LORD in song, for He has done excellent things; let this be known throughout the earth. Isaiah 12:5.
There are wonderful gifts and fruit of the spirit that are awesome and make your life amazing. There are mighty deeds that bring glorious miracles, wonders, and signs. There are amazing inventions, discoveries, songs, books, and artistic creations that people have done and are doing that are skillfully wrought and testimonies of the talents I give you. And I tell you to earnestly desire the greater gifts and to invest and develop your talents and skill for the benefit of all and to plant My Kingdom and establish it upon the earth, but let Me show you a still more excellent way. 1 Corinthians 12:32.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 1 Corithians 13:1-3.
So what is the answer? Love. Imitate Me as My dear children and walk in love. Desire all the gifts but above all pursue love and all good things return from love.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, it does not take offense, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Love never fails or falls flat. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.
Love is not irritated with things so that it speaks rudely or harshly to others. It does not take offense or keep a record of being wronged. Love never has a “bad day” or uses that as an excuse for wrongful conduct. Love is not sarcastic, using humor to mask insulting words that are like sword thrusts. And love does not sneak criticism in the back door by pointedly talking about another’s faults under the covering of making general comments. Love does not rejoice with evil things befall people, even those that have hurt them, but rejoices with truth in love.
Love is magnanimous. Magnanimity (from Latin magnanimitās, from magna “big” and animus “mind, soul, spirit”) is the virtue of being great of mind and heart, noble, generous, unselfish and forgiving, even towards rivals, competitors, and enemies (doing good to your enemies and praying for those who have done wrong to you or others). It encompasses, a refusal to be petty, a willingness to act valiantly in the face danger, and actions for noble purposes.
How is it that you can be on even keel, enjoying life and celebrating others, even in the face of hostility from others?
You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings. Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:6.
I have prepared a feast for you in the presence of your enemies. Rule and reign in Christ by receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. I have invited you into the divine banquet hall (house of wine, for My love is better than wine) and My banner over you is love.
I am going to tell you a secret, for My secrets are for those who love Me and rejoice in My nearness all the day, so draw close and listen now. When you are filled with My love nothing can take down your joy. I anoint your head with oil, the oil that is the anointing on Jesus, the oil of joy.
You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of joy more than Your companions. Psalm 45:7; Hebrews 1:9.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Malicious speech, gossip, going over past hurts, failures, and abusive behavior of others, including those close to you, concentrating on peoples’ faults and failings, as well as on your own must be avoided and cast out by you the minute these unclean spirits rear their ugly heads in your thought life. “Oh no you don’t! I do not allow such thoughts in my mind. The LORD has anointed my head with the oil of joy and my cup overflows with godly blessings. I have love in My heart, God has poured it there by the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit.”
Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Psalm 34:12-14.
And this is so important to walking in love so you may see good, that I give you a second witness of the same passage in the second letter of My apostle Peter by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the gift of prophecy.
To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit; not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing. For, “The one who desires life, to love and see good days, must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. He must turn away from evil and do good; He must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and His ears attend to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” 2 Peter 3:8-12.
Imitate Me. Not the responsibilities of taking care of everything in the three heavens and on earth in the continuum of life in justice, righteousness, and peace, but in walking in the joy of love. And when My love is poured into your heart by My gift to you of the Holy Spirit everything becomes precious, beautiful and new in your life, in the secret garden of your heart where My Spirit dwells. I make all things new and tell the end from the beginning. Take joy in already knowing that good things are coming, most glorious things when My Kingdom at last is able to join with earth and I am able to give you, My children, back the earth, a perfect earth.
My way is perfect, that is, complete and lacking in no good thing.
Join Me and let us walk and sing together on the Highway of Holiness, nothing else but love can walk there.
And a great road will go through that once deserted land. It will be named the Highway of Holiness. Evil-minded people will never travel on it. It will be only for those who walk in God’s ways; fools will never walk there. Lions will not lurk along its course, nor any other ferocious beasts. There will be no other dangers. Only the redeemed will walk on it. Those who have been ransomed by the LORD will return. They will enter Zion singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Sorrow and mourning will disappear, and they will be filled with joy and gladness. Isaiah 35:8-10.
If you remember what saved Noah from divine justice was that he walked with Me. To walk with Me you must be like-minded. He walked in love. And love covers and shields. Love covers a multitude of sins. I did that with the lambs, goats, bulls, whose blood covered sins on credit of the true Lamb to come.
Love covers all. 1 Corinthians 13:7.\
The word often translated as “bears all things” is the Greek word “stegó (στέγω),” which means “to cover.” The Greek verb “stegó” primarily means to cover or to protect by covering, it implies a protective, enduring love that is willing to cover faults and bear burdens.
Brethren, even if one is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2.
Primarily I went each of you to prosper and be in good health even as your soul (mind, will, and emotions) prosper and your soul only prospers in one way, and this is by walking in the truth. And what is truth? It is My Word alone and My Word to you is SHALOM. My plans and purposes for you are shalom and not evil to give you an eternal future filled with love, peace and joy, and a hope that reaches into eternity and back again to earth for each precious moment of time. Jesus came to preach shalom to those near and far, those in Covenant and those being drawn in to join My everlasting Covenant of love. I was in Christ reconciling you to Myself in love not counting your sins against you but counting them all to Him and He bore them, paid your judgment, and satisfied your sentence. All is paid by Me in the One I sent to undo the works of the devil. You are Mine, I bought you back from your slavery to sin and death with the blood of My Son in an eternal redemption.
To walk in love is to be above and not beneath all the turmoil, storms and trials of this world in the state of corruption and death whereby walking out of love put you. For when Adam rejected My Word, and thus rejected Me for I am My Word, he walked out of love and his life became one of torment, violence, and painful toil. Without love there is nothing. With love there is everything good and perfect. For I am love and every good thing given and perfect gift comes down from Me, your Father, in whom there is no darkness, only light. Light goes with love, for when you walk in love you have nothing to hide for your deeds are excellent.
When you have My love in your heart, your life becomes sweet and your heart sings all day. Nothing, even the worst trial and the most obnoxious person who has been takent captive to do the devil’s will by that deceiver, can fluster you or get you off the Highway of Holiness because when you have My love like a fountain bubbling in your spirit you know too much to be drawn into evil. It just has no place in one who lives in the light of My love. And that is what this series is all about, to get you into the joy of the light of My love so that all your days and nights are sweet and you can say when the trials come, and they will as long as the devil is still roaming the earth under the protection of the sublease Adam gave him over the earth, “Nothing moves me for I know Him in whom I have believed and He is willing and able to deliver Me out of them all.”
Love rescues the beloved and I have done just that in Jesus. You were trapped and helpless in your sins and had no way to pay the judgment on Adam that descended to all his descendants (seed) until paid, but I sent My Son to pay it for you and raised you up with Him. I rescued you from the domain of darkness and translated you to the Kingdom of My Beloved Son, in whom you have redemption by His blood, the forgiveness of all your sins. They are not just forgiven they are gone, borne by Him who knew no sin but became sin for you all.
I love you with an everlasting love that never gets old or fades, it is always first love. Know that I am with you and you can have My love in your heart so your life too will be sweet. Come share My joy. Jesus took your burden and broke the yoke on your shoulders by the anointing.